Time Share

Ollie Finch is a teen who jumps through various timelines in an attempt to stop a threat that’s never particularly clear. It’s reasonable to expect the early pages of a madcap time travel caper like this to feel disjointed, but the confusion starts at page one and never really ends. Stories that introduce alternate time streams or parallel universes need solid internal logic. But debut writer Keller never establishes the rules governing his strange worlds, nor is it ever clear what the oversized cast of characters want at any given moment, or even what the stakes are. For instance, midway through an episode, a soldier on a postapocalyptic mission to save someone named Mike Hawk decides he needs to kill him instead. Why? Who knows. It’s a shame that the storyline is so undercooked, because the book does have an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek humor, and the art by McDaid (Judge Dredd) is a lot of fun and perfectly suited for this type of material. (Feb.)